Vacancies

HR Advisor

We are looking for an HR Advisor to join the ICR HR team, based in Aberdeen. 

The HR Advisor will provide and deliver professional, effective and pro-active HR service and advice. Delivering day to day HR operational and transactional support to employees and leaders within the global ICR business. Establish and maintain influential relationships with all relevant stakeholders, ensuring an excellent quality and HR support at all times. The role includes all generalist HR areas, and includes Recruitment. Working in a small HR team, contributing to the delivery of the wider ICR HR plan and ICR strategy.

This role will report to the HR Director.

The main tasks include, but are not limited to:

• Provide effective and professional support to employees and line managers to help resolve day to day HR matters and to drive best practice across ICR globally;
• Advising on all aspects of the employee lifecycle;
• Take responsibility of all core employee relation operations, whilst advising and supporting line managers on core HR processes, including investigations, disciplinary, grievance, absence, performance management, exit interviews, flexible working requests;
• Liaise with the HR Business Partner to ensure appropriate support is provided on senior / complex employee relations cases;
• Monitoring, tracking and managing absence, identifying themes and reporting accordingly;
• Liaising with Occupational Health providers on cases, referrals, and general employment and travel requirements for ICR employees, then advising line managers and employees accordingly;
• Running employee wellbeing initiatives in conjunction with the Occupational Health provider and our HSSEQ function;
• Maintaining all HR systems, databases, files and records, including organisational charts;
• Collating weekly, monthly and ad-hoc HR reports, as required;
• Analyse and interpret HR metrics and help identify any trends or issues, and develop improvement plans where necessary;
• Supporting and working with the Training & Competency Lead on the alignment of Competence Frameworks, Training Matrices and compliance with these across the organisation, including allocation and alignment with the ICR Compensation Structure;
• Preparing and producing all documentation associated with employment changes, promotions, transfers etc;
• Provide proactive recruitment support, whilst working with our Recruitment Partners to deliver recruitment plans;
• Providing support to the recruitment and selection of staff, including supporting line mangers with recruitment business cases, creating recruitment adverts, scheduling interviews, preparing job offer packs, participating in interviews as required, and coordinating the full onboarding process;
• Scheduling and delivering HR inductions and coordinating the full employee induction programme for ICR;
• Ensuring that all new starts are set up in relevant systems and fully onboarded, monitoring probation periods, enrolling into relevant benefit schemes, etc;
• Managing the leaver process, including liaison with leaders and employees, holding exit interviews and reporting on trends;
• Assisting with Compensation and Benefits, including the annual salary review process and benchmarking exercises, along with and benefits reviews/renewals/updates;
• Support and assist with the annual Performance Appraisal Process, including any follow up of performance management or talent development;
• Taking the lead in coordinating and driving our talent pipeline – working with the business to support our apprenticeship schemes, proactively developing such schemes, including full coordination of our interns, apprentices and graduates;
• Liaising with the Finance/payroll team and providers to ensure the accurate and timely completion of all payroll related changes;
• Coordinating and providing advice to the business on the annual health surveillance programme in conjunction with the Occupational Health Provider and the HSSEQ function, ensuring necessary follow up actions are taken and actioned;
• Supporting the roll-out of HR initiatives and HR project delivery across ICR globally;
• Assisting with the review and update of ICR standards and processes, keeping up to date on current employment law and legislative changes which may impact the business;
• Undertaking any other general HR activities and support as determined by the HR Director.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provision of confidential, efficient, and high-quality advice and support as part of the HR function;
• Delivering a professional HR service to the business, with positive working relationships being maintained internally and externally;
• Ensuring that all HR information/data and activities remain confidential, and are recorded actively and in real time, in accordance with statutory obligations and to a high quality and standard;
• Ensuring HR systems are maintained accurately for reporting and tracking purposes within the business.

Key Skills, Attributes and Experience:

• Proven generalist HR experience;
• Degree qualified in HR or another relevant subject (preferable);
• CIPD qualified (preferable);
• Strong working knowledge of UK employment law;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt to your audience as required;
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment;
• Strong sense of initiative, always striving for improvement;
• Good interpersonal skills;
• Able to build effective relationships with multiple stakeholders both internally and externally;
• Passionate about delivering a professional and value-add HR service to the business;
• Strong attention to detail;
• Strong IT skills in HRIS and office packages;
• Able to operate in a discreet and confidential manner;
• Experience working with offshore populations and supporting multiple sites (desirable);
• International HR experience, exposure or knowledge including Norway, USA, the Middle East and Australia (desirable);
• Experience with using SAP and Onboard Tracker (desirable).